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Subject(s)

• Commonwealth literature (English)—History and criticism [Browse]
• Fiction genres—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Fiction genres—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature, Modern—20th century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literature, Modern—21st century—History and criticism [Browse]
• Literary form—History—21st century [Browse]
• Literary form—History—20th century [Browse]
• Mitchell, David (David Stephen).—Cloud atlas [Browse]
• Mitchell, David (David Stephen)—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Rushdie, Salman—Ground beneath her feet [Browse]
• Rushdie, Salman—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]
• Hall, Steven 1975-—Raw shark texts [Browse]
• Hall, Steven 1975-—Criticism and interpretation [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Novels [Browse]

Series

• Anglistische Forschungen ; Heft 468. [More in this series]
• Anglistische Forschungen ; Band 468 [More in this series]

Notes

Originally presented as the author's thesis (doctoral)--Universität Frankfurt, 2013.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-300).

Contents

• Introduction
• Conceptualising genre. What genre? Questions of definition and scope
• Toward a pragmatic conception of genre
• Uses of genre in contemporary literature. What goes around comes around: David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas
• Orpheus rocks: Salman Rushdie's The Ground Beneath Her Feet
• Mind matters: Steven Hall's The Raw Shark Texts
• Conclusion.

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Other title(s)

• Genre visions
• Genre experimentation and world-construction in contemporary anglophone literature

ISBN

• 9783825347093 ((hardbound))
• 3825347095 ((hardbound))

OCLC

1193276944

International Article Number

• 9783825347093

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